Demonstrators protesting the European Central Bank clash with police firing water cannons
in Naples, Italy. ECB head Mario Draghi was expected to underline the bank's willingness
to deploy more economic stimulus measures, a stance that could send the euro skidding
even lower.

Malaysian ethnic Chinese walk barefoot over
burning coals on the final day of the Nine Emperor Gods festival at a temple in Ampang,
near Kuala Lumpur. The devotees abstained from meat for the past nine days in order
to purify their bodies in preparation for the ritual, in which women are barred from
participating.

While Jaylin Figueroa gets ready to dig in, fellow Daniel
Morgan Middle School fifth-grader Josh Stickles reacts in disgust to the lungs, heart and
trachea of a pig presented at a health-science event at the school in Winchester, Va.

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his head as he performs the Kaparot
ceremony in the Ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. The Jewish ritual
is supposed to transfer one's sins of the past year to the chicken, and is performed before
the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day on the Jewish calendar.

In Smrzovka, Czech Republic, members of the Czech Union of
Chimney Climbers scale a 58-meter, 100-year-old chimney of a former textile factory. So
far, the group has climbed 9,755 chimneys in the Czech Republic and abroad.